Berger Real Estate Investment

I am so happy that I just moved out of University court. My time there was absolutely horrendous. When I moved in, and until I left, this place was infested with bedbugs, despite paying hundreds of dollars to heat treat my items. The bedbugs issue was wide spread and the landlord did next to nothing. Save yourself the pain and misery of of dealing with bedbugs. Management and maintenance people are completely incompetent. Berger properties writes fake reviews and pays their people and get their staff to write nice things on review sites. SO BEWARE OF THE FAKE REVIEWS. You have been warned. University Court was not kept in good condition. Things were constantly breaking. This was so miserable, that I had to move and break my lease. I was getting bitten ever night and the landlord just talks down at you about the problem. Oh and there are some sketchy neighbors here. There’s a mental middle aged man who talks to himself in the lobby who is hard to understand and smells like drugs. My neighbor told me about his bed bug infested mattress. Gross.

This place is terrible. We chose this apartment because of the location and we were new to the city. BEWARE you cannot break your lease. You MAY be able to sublet but probably not. They will also raise the rent and make it extremely difficult to sublease. The apartments are incredibly poorly made. I got a splinter from the flooring. The closet doors continually broke. Once you sign you are trapped. It does not matter the situation. Let me go on about the condition of the apartment and then I will go into the Slum lords they call a management property. For as much as you pay here it is incredibly poor constructed. There is a huge pap under the main door and between the frame that will drive your heating bill up ridiculously in the winter (depending on your apartment). The flooring near the door was coming up and it looks like it has never been sealed. The counters although nice show every little thing possible. The management team is completely incompetent and if you piss them off enough the actual partner will show up at your door like a mob boss. Good luck :)

I lived at the apartments at 48^th & Osage (Garden Court). The only good thing about this place was the location, convenient for Penn (where I’m a grad student) and pretty close to Baltimore Ave and public transit. Everything else was really godawful. I moved out (into a beautiful apartment managed by Powelton Properties) after only living there 4 months and somehow tricked a poor woman into subletting from me (because I wasn’t permitted to terminate the lease). Below, I’ve listed all of the terrible aspects of this apartment and Berger Properties.
*roach-​infested
*Hurricane Irene flooded the basement and backed up the sewers. Didn’t bother to clean up. Building smelled like poop for several days
*Basement flooding also ruined the water heaters. Took 2 weeks to replace them. So, 2 weeks with NO HOT WATER. (isn’t that illegal?)
*the shelves in the kitchen cabinets broke, causing all of my glasses to fall out and most of them broke. Took over a month to get new shelves
*were rude and difficult to work with in negotiating a sublease
*small, poorly maintained apartment, especially considering the price
In conclusion, Berger Real Estate Investment, Inc is a slumlord.